TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Airlines have a relatively straightforward goal — getting people in seats — but they’ve traditionally relied on inefficient and outdated statistical modeling methods to predict what prices and other conditions will sell tickets. Enter FLYR Labs. Image Credits: FLYR Labs (opens in a new window).

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CIO

APRIL 19, 2024

Taking the helm as CIO is a major transition for any IT leader, but Lauren Woods’ experience at Southwest Airlines stands apart. I ended up leaning on my partners in the business and learning so much from them about how our airline worked and what it was like on the operational side,” she says. “It

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CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Still, CIOs have reason to drive AI capabilities and employee adoption, as only 16% of companies are reinvention ready with fully modernized data foundations and end-to-end platform integration to support automation across most business processes, according to Accenture. These reinvention-ready organizations have 2.5

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 31, 2020

Airline industry made an impact on how we buy things today, and how those things are marketed. Just a couple of examples: electronic tickets were first developed for fare ticketing, while one of the first online booking systems was built by airline distribution company SABRE. Scandinavian airlines first class in 70s and now.

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CIO

APRIL 2, 2025

In a lawsuit the airline filed in October, Delta claimed the faulty update was pushed out in an unsafe manner and CrowdStrike should pay for the losses. Delta alone had more than $500 million in losses as a result of crippled operations and thousands of flight cancellations and delays.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Many apps today assume that data lives in only one location, typically a single cloud database. Thanks to the proliferation of mobile devices and cloud infrastructure — the latter of which accelerated during the pandemic — apps now need to store and process data in more places, from the edge to the public cloud.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

“Today’s first flight provided Eviation with invaluable data to further optimize the aircraft for commercial production. We will review the flight data to understand how the performance of the aircraft matched our models,” Eviation CEO and President Gregory Davis told TechCrunch.

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CIO

JULY 23, 2024

Gen AI has become a priority tool across all industries for all types of companies, where up to 40% have a budget or related gen AI initiatives, and 30% believe this technology is disruptive to the business, according to recent data from IDC. But it’s still early days since ChatGPT burst on the scene in 2022.

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Altexsoft

MAY 21, 2020

In this article, we’ll figure out what BSP and ARC mean and — more importantly — why you should care, if you are a travel agent that wants to issue flight tickets on behalf of airlines. Sounds complicated, but in plain English, BSP is a payment mediator between airlines and travel agents. Start there and then come back.

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Altexsoft

JULY 30, 2020

Even before the pandemic, the industry was going through a crisis, so airlines fought hard to track down and close every loophole. Often created by travel agents and customers (both accidentally and not), these holes account for about 3 percent of the airline’s revenue. Airline revenue leakage. Couldn’t be more relevant, right?

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Teradata

JUNE 2, 2022

Learn how data and analytics can enable airlines to navigate towards more streamlined operations. Read more.

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Altexsoft

APRIL 16, 2021

Whether your business is focused on selling airline tickets, package trips, or cruises, if you want to be acknowledged as a professional in the travel industry, you need to be certified. So, ARC or Airline Reporting Corporation is a company that regulates and handles transactions between airlines and US-based travel agencies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In addition to its BNPL platform, Plentina also plans to focus on other data-driven financial services (its co-founders, Kevin Gabayan and Earl Valencia, are data scientists whose combined work experience include positions at Google and Charles Schwab). The company will start its international expansion next year. “We

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CTOvision

MAY 20, 2020

British low-cost airline group EasyJet has revealed on Tuesday that it “has been the target of an attack from a highly sophisticated source” and that it has suffered a data […].

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Datavail

JANUARY 21, 2020

ETL (extract, transform, load) is the three-part mantra of thousands of data migration experts around the world. By smoothly transferring your enterprise data from source locations to the target data warehouse, ETL is one of the most important pieces of the data puzzle. Just looking for a few pieces of helpful advice?

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CIO

MAY 25, 2023

Deneen DeFiore is a Hall of Fame technology executive who currently serves as vice president and chief information security officer at United Airlines, where she leads the cybersecurity and digital risk organization to ensure the company is prepared to prevent, detect, and respond to evolving cyber threats.

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Today, airlines still use third parties for their flight distribution. Although some airlines strive to inspire loyalty in their customers and encourage them to buy tickets directly from their sites, it can hardly be a working scheme for every airline. What NDC is and how airlines can benefit from adopting it.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Roy Cohen believes that there’s a severe underinvestment in tech within the airline industry, with airlines continuing to rely on legacy systems and outdated infrastructures that date back decades. Powered by the algorithm, the Fetcherr platform essentially simulates flights and seats being sold by a given carrier.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Like many airlines, Lufthansa Group had its business upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. By April 2020, with travel bans proliferating, the airline suffered losses of €1 million per hour. We strongly believe and focus a lot on how we can give better data to cabin crews so they can, for instance, welcome you.”

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CIO

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Predictive analytics definition Predictive analytics is a category of data analytics aimed at making predictions about future outcomes based on historical data and analytics techniques such as statistical modeling and machine learning. Airlines frequently use predictive analytics to set ticket prices reflecting past travel trends.

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CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Each Hangar houses agile coaches, business analysts, data and analytics specialists, product owners, Scrum masters, software engineers, and user interface designers — all with one mission: to elevate the airlines’ digital customer experience before, during, and after the flight. We believe the differentiator is your own data.”

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CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Kia Motors, NEC, Coles Group, Wipro, Fujitsu, Shiseido, Himalaya, Cochlear, and Japan Airlines. In particular, building a successful cloud foundation and effectively leveraging business data will be key to unlocking new growth opportunities in AI, data analytics, and sustainability.

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Altexsoft

APRIL 9, 2020

The distribution of airline products has always been a challenge. Since the emergence of Global Distribution Systems ( GDS ) and migration to digital marketplaces, airlines have been constantly locked in their marketing efforts. Besides, airlines stuck with GDSs didn’t get enough customer data to do offer personalization.

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 14, 2019

Two fundamental needs connect all airlines: revenue and passenger satisfaction. To be able to sell ancillaries to the passengers and be more profitable, airlines struggle to deliver personalized content to their travelers. Lufthansa, British Airways, American Airlines, and Iberia were the first to adopt NDC. What is NDC?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

The extension actually presents a full, standalone web experience (rather than an overlay on another website), but Goldstein said this approach is still important, because it allows Flight Penguin to pull its data “through the frontend instead of the backend,” giving it the most up-to-date information.

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Altexsoft

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In this article, we’ll discuss airline software suites, their major modules, and available modern solutions, created to change the current state of things for the better. Its mission is to keep operations running smoothly, and failures in its work can cost airlines tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Spring is a good time to do a bit of a spring clean; we loved Zack ’s guide to how to remove your personal data from Google Search introduction. Ain’t got time to lose a points gain : It used to be a royal pain in the airline to create co-branded credit cards, but Concerto added $21.2 How’d that happen? HOLD THE PRESS.

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CIO

MAY 14, 2024

Controlling escalating cloud and AI costs and preventing data leakage are the top reasons why enterprises are eying hybrid infrastructure as their target AI solution. Enterprises need to ensure that private corporate data does not find itself inside a public AI model,” McCarthy says. The Milford, Conn.-based

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The tool, which is now launching out of beta, searches routes on more than 150 airlines to uncover reward travel options that the company says would have been difficult to find otherwise. The site additionally provides information on how to maximize your airline miles and points. Image Credits: point.me. Our vision for p oint.me

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Kolors, a Mexico City-based startup, says its platform that connects intercity bus riders with bus drivers is like “if Uber and Southwest Airlines had a baby.” It’s all about seeing what technology and data-driven optimization can do for the services.” Image Credit: Kolors.

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CIO

JULY 15, 2024

Carbon emissions for datacenters exceed the airline industry Most people do not understand complex global datacenters. However, most people understand, and frequently use, airlines. of global carbon emissions, exceeds carbon produced by the airline industry globally. Contact us today to learn more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

based startup which uses machine learning technology to analyze a variety of visual data like satellite imagery and lidar with the goal of boosting accountability and credibility around carbon offsetting projects, has fast followed a $5.8 Sylvera , a U.K.-based million seed round in May last year by closing a $32 million Series A.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2024

Instead, the publicly held operator of Cathay Pacific Airlines and HK Express is shifting from migration to optimization mode in an effort to wrest additional benefits from its all-in cloud transformation. It will replace the standard MPLS network, he adds. The cloud has helped us to be more scalable and agile.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Khi then temporarily stepped back from her day job at Zamna (which runs a blockchain system to securely share and verify passenger identities for airlines and travel authorities). Luckily, her role at Zamna meant she could also call many an airline CEO to talk about shipping supplies to countries bordering Ukriane, via fright airlines.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

It can now be used at more than 500 merchants, including consumer electronics seller Kimstore and Philippine Airlines. As new data comes in or new variables become available, we upgrade our models. Credit scoring is also something we constantly tinker with,” he added. “As

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Altexsoft

MAY 26, 2022

Airline ticketing is not as simple as it may seem to passengers. What is an airline ticket? An airline ticket is a document granted by a carrier or travel agency to a passenger as a confirmation that a person has bought a seat on a flight. Airline ticketing process. Airline web pages. The booking flow.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Pillar 2: Data protection It only takes a few clicks for sensitive data to fall into the wrong hands—that’s why protecting data in the cloud requires a modern approach. With AI-powered discovery and classification, Zscaler continuously scans data in motion and at rest, including data residing in SaaS and private applications.

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